Mr. Pat Mellon:

Senator Higgins mentioned private actors, and that is what they are, private actors. We are dealing with the public, and it is that thing. Very recently, we were looking at the data harvesting of the location of people's phones. Why does data harvesting only work in one direction? They harvest from us. Why are we not insisting that we harvest from them to know where it is all going and what they are doing with it? That is the kind of thing we need. If a company wants to operate AI, that is fine, but it is a problem if it will not tell us how, where and why it is doing it. For a long time now, around football pitches, the advertising of alcohol and cigarettes has been banned. Why do we not have a warning on AI? We need some sort of a warning to people, like there is on a packet of cigarettes. A person does not buy one packet of cigarettes and see the warning once; they see it every time. There should be a warning on this. There should be a flag on this in that respect.